See it: L.A. mansion Prince turned purple listed for $30 million, or $80,000 per month
The Los Angeles mansion that Prince turned purple is for sale for $29.995 million. Or, you can lease the main residence for $80,000 per month.
The estate sits on 2.15 acres with a main house spanning 15,101 square feet and an English Tudor home of another 3,300 square feet. The palatial main residence has 10 bedrooms, 13 baths, a ballroom, wine room, large terraces with city and ocean views, a rooftop tennis court, gourmet kitchen, billiards room, and a stunning swimming pool.
The property’s backstory is Hollywood legend.
When NBA player Carlos Boozer signed with the Utah Jazz in 2004, he bought the Southern California estate and decorated it with fine, expensive furnishings. Boozer couldn’t live in the home near Sunset Strip during the basketball season so he rented it to Prince for $95,000 per month. When Boozer was back in Los Angeles, he discovered that Prince had replaced his beautiful furnishings, changed the place to his liking and converted it to a black-and-purple motif.
“The weight room was now a disco dance floor with a DJ booth and his bedrooms converted to a hair salon and massage parlor,” wrote TopTenRealEstateDeals.com, which obtained permission to share photos of the house (see video above).
The Los Angeles Times further reported that gold lions on the gates to the compound were replaced with the Prince symbol, Italian carpets stripped and replaced in favor of shades of purple and black, and a heart-shaped bed was moved into the master suite.
Boozer sued Prince for violating the lease, according to news reports.
“Boozer called ‘foul’ and threatened to sue,” according to TopTenRealEstateDeals, “but Prince soon returned everything back to the way it was when he first rented the home. The two became best friends up until Prince’s death in 2016.”
Built in 1953 by Hal Braxton Hayes, the mansion at 1235 Sierra Alta Way was formerly home to actress Elizabeth Taylor, film producer Ted Fields and Rockstar Energy founder Russ Weiner, according to the official listing. Prince performed live concerts there.
Hayes constructed an artificial beach for topless tanning on the property and a custom swimming pool, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The compound could serve as a bunker.
The “indoor-outdoor lagoon winded through the entertainment rooms and eventually led to an underwater tunnel that accessed a secret, sealed underground cave aerated with oxygen tanks,” the Times wrote.
Listed about three weeks ago, the home last sold in 2010 for $8.4 million, according to realestate.com.
The estate is listed by The Oppenheim Group, West Hollywood.
This story was originally published April 6, 2020 at 1:54 PM with the headline "See it: L.A. mansion Prince turned purple listed for $30 million, or $80,000 per month."
